Fanny Hill, John Cleland
Fanny Hill, John Cleland
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Fanny Hill
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Author: John Cleland

Narrator: Justine Eyre

Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/27/2010

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963, an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a bestselling novel. Fanny's story, as she falls into prostitution and then rises to respectability, takes the form of a confession that is vividly colored by copious and explicit physiological details of her carnal adventures. The moral outrage that this has always provoked has only recently been countered by serious critical appraisal.

About John Cleland

John Cleland (1709-1789) was an English novelist who is most famous and infamous as the author of Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. He wrote Fanny Hill in two installments while serving time in prison for debt. In 1749, he was arrested for obscenity yet denied responsibility for the novel. The book was not officially published again for one hundred years. However, it continued to sell well and was published in pirate editions. Cleland is also the author of the lesser-known and less well received novels Memoirs of a Coxcomb and The Woman of Honour, as well as The Surprises of Love, a collection of romance tales.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sasha on August 28, 2016

If you've heard one euphemism for penis, you...well, you haven't heard them all. Once you finish this book, then you'll have heard them all. I had more fun reading this porn than I did many other 18-century novels, but that's largely because it's very short; faced with 600 pages of this, and given th......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on August 21, 2012

I'm talking about an erotic novel here, so maybe don't read my review if you tend to get offended by open and frank discussion about sexual acts. Just warning you in advance :) Okay, firstly, this is porn. Just porn. Not a great literary achievement, not something that will sit snug in your mind with......more

Goodreads review by Emma Angeline on July 10, 2021

this book has no business being as funny as it is it’s a metaphor, see a historical reminder that you’ve never done anything original in bed......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on July 08, 2019

All sex acts are unique, beautiful, & uniquely beautiful in the immensely pleasurable "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure." Through the ages, sex has brought wondrous delight to human beings & here is testament of that fortitude over mere convention and the evil forces of repression. This, like the ever-......more

Goodreads review by Jr on June 18, 2020

"The paths of vice are sometimes strewed with roses, but then they are for ever infamous for many a thorn, for many a cankerworm; those of virtue are strewed with roses purely, and those eternally unfading ones. If you do me then justice, you will esteem me perfectly consistent in the incense I burn......more

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